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Everywhere in the world women live longer than men - but this was not always the case. The available data from rich countries shows that women didn't live longer than men in the 19th century. Why do women live longer than men, and why is this difference growing over time? The evidence is limited and we only have some solutions. We know that behavioral, biological and environmental factors all play a role in the fact that women have longer life spans than men, but we don't know exactly what the contribution of each factor is.<br><br>We are aware that women live longer than males, regardless of weight. However it is not due to the fact that certain non-biological factors have changed. These factors are changing. Some are well known and relatively straightforward, like the fact that men smoke more often. Certain are more complicated. For example, there is evidence that in rich countries the female advantage increased in part because infectious diseases used to affect women disproportionately a century ago, so advances in medicine that reduced the long-term health burden from infectious diseases, especially for survivors, ended up raising women's longevity disproportionately.<br><br>Everywhere in the world women tend to live longer than men<br>The first chart below shows life expectancy at birth for men and women. As you can see, every country is above the diagonal line of parity - which means that in every country a newborn girl can expect to live longer than a newborn boy.1<br><br>This chart is interesting in that it shows that while the female advantage exists everywhere, the difference between countries is huge. In Russia women live for 10 years longer than males. In Bhutan, the difference is less that half a year.<br><br>__S.17__<br>__S.19__<br>The advantage women had in terms of life expectancy was lower in countries with higher incomes than it is now.<br>Let's look at how female longevity advantage has changed in the course of time. The chart below shows male and female life expectancy at the birth in the US between 1790 until 2014. Two things stand out.<br><br>First, there is an upward trend. Both genders in the United States live longer than they did a century ago. This is in line with historical increases in life expectancy everywhere in the world.<br><br>The gap is getting wider: Although the advantage of women in terms of [https://www.medcheck-up.com/?s=life%20expectancy life expectancy] was very small however, it has grown significantly with time.<br><br>Using the option 'Change country by country' in the chart, you will be able to determine if these two points are applicable to the other countries having available information: [https://glorynote.com/%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B6%D8%A7%D8%B9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B9/ اوضاع الجماع] Sweden, France and [http://rhlug.pileus.org/wiki/User:Byron44S82066 اوضاع الجماع] the UK.